The Monitor

PHARR — South Texas Health System is officially opening its first freestanding emergency room in Pharr in hopes of addressing medical needs in the area.

The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court approved a $316 million budget for fiscal year 2025, which begins Jan. 1, 2025, including a 5% cost of living salary increase for all county employees.

BROWNSVILLE — The diets of the Indigenous people of the Valley were vastly different than today and that genetic component plays heavily into to region, which has one of the highest rates of obesity in the country.

SpaceX is ready to go with its fifth Starship suborbital test flight from Boca Chica/Starbase, with Starship 30 and Super Heavy booster 12 stacked at the launch site.

We have to give credit to Gov. Greg Abbott, who addressed wide-ranging topics beyond border security at Tuesday’s Alliance of Cities summit in McAllen. We hope to see more state issues occupy is attention in the future.

McAllen ISD Deputy Superintendent for Business and Operations Lorena Garcia gave a preliminary fund balance report this week for the school year 2023-2024 which included an unprecedented surplus of around $32 million at the end of the year.

A 30-year-old Edinburg man accused of gunning down his girlfriend outside a McAllen convenience store while her 3-year-old daughter was in the backseat of her vehicle has been indicted and is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.

McALLEN — Three months after representatives from Ground Game Texas delivered a petition with signatures from more than 4,500 McAllen voters calling for the city to hold a charter amendment election, the cost of complying is causing some sticker shock.

While others may have been growing up on “Green Eggs and Ham,” Robert Rodriguez’s nights as a child were filled with his mother reading him the periodic table, beginning a journey that’s taken him to places he may not have even dreamed of at the time.